A Course in Miracles (Original Edition)

by Helen Schucman

Miracles are natural expressions of total forgiveness.

Only eternity is real.

The ability is the potential; the achievement is its expression;

and the Atonement is the purpose.

The disciples were specifically told to be physicians of the Lord and to heal others. They were also told to heal themselves and were promised that I would never leave them or forsake them.

You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a man must think of himself in his heart, because this is what he is.

Revelation unites Souls directly with God. Miracles unite minds directly with each other.

The deeper levels of the subconscious always contain the impulse to miracles, but man is free to fill its more superficial levels, which are closer to consciousness, with the impulses of this world and to identify himself with them. This results in denying himself access to the miracle level underneath. In his actions, then, his relationships also become superficial, and miracle-inspired relating becomes impossible.

Revelation induces a state in which fear has already been abolished. Miracles are thus a means, and revelation is an end.

Miracles praise God through men.

They heal because they deny body-identification and affirm Soul-identification. By perceiving the spirit, they adjust the levels and see them in proper alignment. This places the spirit at the center, where Souls can communicate directly.

Miracles should inspire gratitude, not awe. Man should thank God f...

Those who perceive and acknowledge that they have everything have no need for driven behavior of any kind.

The specialness of God's Sons does not stem from exclusion but from inclusion. All my brothers are special. If they believe they are deprived of anything, their perception becomes distorted.

When this occurs, the whole family of God, or the Sonship, is impaired in its relationships.

The creation is whole, and the mark of wholeness is holiness.

Wholeness is the perceptual content of miracles.

The stimulus must precede the response and will also determine the kind of response that is evoked.

you first perceive the stimulus and then behave accordingly.

As ye perceive, So shall ye behave.

You cannot behave appropriately unless you perceive accurately,

The way to perceive for Golden Rule behavior is to look out from the perception of your own holiness and perceive the holiness of others.

“There is no death” and why I demonstrated that death does not exist.

Those who witness for me are expressing through their miracles that they have abandoned the belief in deprivation in favor of the abundance they have learned belongs to them.

Miracles are affirmations of Sonship, which is a state of completion and abundance.

The Soul is therefore unalterable because it is already perfect, but the mind can elect the level it chooses to serve.

The mind, if it elects to do so, becomes a medium by which

the Soul creates along the line of its own creation.

To change your mind means to place it at the disposal of true Authority.

The illusion that shallow roots can be deepened and thus made to hold is one of the distortions on which the reversal of the Golden Rule rests.

Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind.

By being one, this state of mind goes out to anyone, even without the

awareness of the miracle work...

The miracle is an expression of an inner awareness of Christ and the acceptance of His Atonement.

A miracle is never lost. It touches many people you do not even know and sometimes produces undreamed of changes in

forces of which you are not even aware.

The impersonal nature of miracle-mindedness ensures your grace, but only Christ is in a position to know

where grace can be bestowed.

The danger of defenses lies in their propensity for holding misperceptions rigidly in place.

A rigid orientation can be extremely reliable, even if it is upside-down. In fact, the more consistently upside-down it is, the more reliable it is.

When you are afraid of anything, you are acknowledging its power to hurt you. Remember that where your heart is, there is your treasure also. This means that you believe in what you value. If you are afraid, you are valuing wrongly. Human understanding will inevitably value wrongly and, by endowing all human thoughts with equal power, will inevitably destroy peace. That is why the Bible speaks of “the peace of God which passeth (human) understanding.” This peace is totally incapable of being shaken by human errors of any kind. It denies the ability of

anything which is not of God to affect you in any way.

This is the proper use of denial. It is not used to hide anything ...

the next step is to realize that a temple is not a building at all. Its real holiness lies in the inner altar around which the building is built. The inappropriate emphasis men have put on beautiful church buildings is a sign of their fear of Atonement and their unwillingness to reach the altar itself.

For perfect effectiveness, the Atonement belongs at the center of the inner altar, where it undoes the separation and restores the wholeness of the mind.

The Children of God are entitled to perfect comfort, which comes from a sense of perfect trust. Until they achieve this, they waste themselves and their true creative powers on useless attempts to make themselves more comfortable by inappropriate means. But the real means is already provided and does not involve any effort at all on their part.

The Atonement is the only gift that is worthy of being offered to the altar of God. This is because of the inestimable value of the altar itself. It was created perfect and is entirely worthy of receiving perfection.

Men must learn to perceive the world as a

means of healing the separation. The Atonement is the guarantee that they w...

all healing is the release from fear. To undertake this, you cannot be fearful yourself.